PUBLICATION

Vertebrate development: taming the nodal waves

Authors
Solnica-Krezel, L.
ID
ZDB-PUB-031001-15
Date
2003
Source
Current biology : CB   13(1): R7-R9 (Review)
Registered Authors
Solnica-Krezel, Lilianna
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Body Patterning/physiology*
  • Embryo, Nonmammalian
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/physiology
  • Left-Right Determination Factors
  • Mesoderm/physiology
  • Nodal Protein
  • Transforming Growth Factor beta/genetics
  • Transforming Growth Factor beta/metabolism*
  • Vertebrates/embryology*
  • Vertebrates/genetics
  • Zebrafish/embryology
  • Zebrafish/genetics
PubMed
12526755 Full text @ Curr. Biol.
Abstract
Recent results have provided evidence that regulatory loops operating in vertebrate embryos between the developmental signalling factors Nodal and Lefty may provide a real example of the kind of reaction-diffusion process long predicted to be a mechanism of pattern formation.
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